{"id":15741,"date":"2020-03-13T10:40:06","date_gmt":"2020-03-13T01:40:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/mar\/13\/how-taiwan-is-containing-coronavirus-despite-diplomatic-isolation-by-china"},"modified":"2020-03-13T10:40:06","modified_gmt":"2020-03-13T01:40:06","slug":"how-taiwan-is-containing-coronavirus-despite-diplomatic-isolation-by-china-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=15741","title":{"rendered":"How Taiwan is containing coronavirus \u2013 despite diplomatic isolation by China"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Country learned \u2018harsh lesson\u2019 from Sars and has kept infections under 50, despite being blocked by Beijing from being part of the WHO<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/live\/2020\/mar\/13\/coronavirus-live-updates-uk-us-australia-italy-europe-school-shutdown-share-markets-sport-events-cancelled-latest-update-news\">Coronavirus \u2013 latest updates<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Shawn Bryant knew he would be under quarantine for two weeks when he arrived in Taiwan from Daejeon, South Korea. The local police called every day and Bryant had told them he would be moving to a new Airbnb a few days into his stay. They said it was fine as long as he took a taxi.<\/p>\n<p>So Bryant was alarmed when, in the taxi, he received a text warning that he had gone too far from his accommodation and would be fined if he didn\u2019t return immediately. He quickly called his police contact, who assured Bryant he can just ignore the automated message.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/mar\/13\/how-taiwan-is-containing-coronavirus-despite-diplomatic-isolation-by-china\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Country learned \u2018harsh lesson\u2019 from Sars and has kept infections under 50, despite being blocked by Beijing from being part of the WHOCoronavirus \u2013 latest updatesShawn Bryant knew he would be under quarantine for two weeks when he arrived in Taiwan fro&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1121,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,50,1069,914,299,74,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15741","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-coronavirus-outbreak","category-infectious-diseases","category-science","category-taiwan","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15741","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1121"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15741"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15741\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15838,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15741\/revisions\/15838"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15741"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15741"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15741"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}